• Community Partnerships and Priorities
• Digital Strategy and Services
• Office of Local Government
• Office of Parliamentary Counsel
• Office of Review and Evaluation
• Office of the Secretary
• Resilience and Recovery Tasmania
• Corporate and Government Services
• Policy Division
  • Collaboration
  • Intergovernmental relations
  • Lifting Literacy
  • Tasmania's Place in the Asian Century
  • Partnership with the University of Tasmania
  • State Policies
  • Daylight saving in Tasmania
  • Contact
  • Medicinal Cannabis
  • Constitutional Recognition of Tasmanian Aboriginal people
  • Brand Tasmania Project
  • Premier’s Health and Wellbeing Advisory Council
  • 14 August 2024 - Communique
  • Premier's Youth Advisory Council
  • Review of the Tasmanian State Service
• Service Tasmania Unit
• State Service Management Office

Contact Details

By phone
Find the number of a specific division or office to contact them directly or call Service Tasmania on 1300 135 513.

Our staff
Use the Tasmanian Government Directory to find staff contact details

Social media
Follow our social media accounts to keep up to date with specific programs and initiatives.

Daylight saving in Tasmania

The clocks go back an hour at 3am on 7 April 2024

Daylight saving in Tasmania commences at 2 am on the first Sunday in October each year, and people should put their clocks forward by one hour at this time. It concludes at 3 am daylight saving time (2 am standard time) on the first Sunday in April the following year, at which time people should put their clocks back by one hour.

In November 2017, the Daylight Savings Regulations 2017 (Regulations) were included under the Daylight Savings Act 2007. The Regulations describe the period during which Tasmanian summer time is to be observed in Tasmania. That state that daylight savings time will commence at 2 a.m. (standard time) on the first Sunday in October each year, and end at 3 a.m. (2 a.m. standard time) on the first Sunday in April in the following year.

The period of daylight saving is prescribed by the Daylight Saving Regulations 2017, made under the Daylight Saving Act 2007. Since April 2008, daylight saving has been synchronised across Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT and South Australia, although South Australia remains half an hour behind throughout the year due to the observance of Australian Central Standard Time.

Western Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory do not observe daylight saving.

For the daylight saving periods from 2018-19 to 2026-27, the start and finish dates for Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, the ACT and South Australia are as follows:

Period	Start Date (2 am on the first Sunday in October)	Finish Date (3 am daylight saving time on the first Sunday in April)
2018-19	7 October 2018	7 April 2019
2019-20	6 October 2019	5 April 2020
2020-21	4 October 2020	4 April 2021
2021-22	3 October 2021	3 April 2022
2022-23	2 October 2022	2 April 2023
2023-24	1 October 2023	7 April 2024
2024-25	6 October 2024	6 April 2025
2025-26	5 October 2025	5 April 2026
2026-27	4 October 2026	4 April 2027

Further information:

Policy Division

Phone: 03 6232 7550
Email: policy.admin@dpac.tas.gov.au

Intergovernmental Relations email contacts:

Treaties matters – scot@dpac.tas.gov.au

Commonwealth-State agreements and COAG-related matters – Tas.IGR@dpac.tas.gov.au

Inquiries – inquiries@dpac.tas.gov.au